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Absolutely true and one of the reasons I would be hesitant to live somewhere like Singapore. I wasn't arguing that Singapore was better, but simply discussing the surprise that the original commenter had in learning about such restrictive economic regulations in the US.

And the truth is, Singapore's benevolent dictatorship and the governments of 8 other nations currently allow their citizens more economic freedoms than the democratically elected politicians in the United States. At least, that's what this Index claims, which seems to match reality to some extent. The Index doesn't measure the power of the government to take those freedoms away on a whim, or non-economic freedoms, but simply the current level of economic freedom in these countries.